KATYA KOSTYUKOVA

VR Product Designer, Facebook

Keynote:

Designing Facebook Spaces

Virtual Reality gives designers a whole new canvas in which to innovate, and presents new opportunities for us to master new skills. But it also comes with unique challenges. Take a sneak-peek into the design process at Facebook for VR experience and design of Facebook Spaces. We will look at what types of problems can you solve with VR and what are some of the factors and challenges that need to be considered in order to create a successful user experience in VR.

Who is Katya Kostyukova

Katya is a product designer at Facebook, working on Social VR and Facebook Spaces. Prior to that, Katya led the design for Audio 360 at Facebook and design of the software suit Spatial Workstation for spatial audio production for 360 videos and Cinematic VR. Before joining Facebook, Katya was the lead designer at start up Emergent VR and worked as an architect at architecture and urban design firm Perkins + Will.

About the organizer

UXservices is a specialized user research and user experience design consulting firm, based in Istanbul, Turkey. UXservices has a global reach to latest UX and usability know-how thanks to its active role in international organizations like UXPA, UX Fellows and IAI. UXservices has credentials and experience in a wide variety of interface platforms at different industries including telco, banking, finance, retail and more.